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Contents:

• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN THE U.S. ON THE LGBTQ COMMUNY’S PROGRS
• HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
• HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
• JARED POLIS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED ERNOR AMERI
• WISNS’S TAMMY BALDW IS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO SENATE

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK

“Why don’t we n you as openly gay? If you were a femist, was all the better that you were a the natnal gay movement notice when you won?

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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN THE U.S. ON THE LGBTQ COMMUNY’S PROGRS

Not that we portrayed that way, but that was their assumptn and we enuraged you were younger, was lbian and gay rights. It never really occurred to me to thk about gay marriage, for stance, and that seemed to have not taken as long as I thought would. Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the history of California, tak his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8, 1978.

The first and, for years, most visible openly gay polician Ameri, Milk was a longtime activist and pneerg lear of San Francis’s LGBT servg the Navy durg the Korean War, Milk held several whe-llar jobs New York Cy. Inially nservative and reluctant to advote for gay rights, Milk’s views changed around the time he and his then-partner opened a mera shop on Castro Street, the heart of the San Francis’s LGBT muny, many bs owners and cizens of the largely-gay Castro District, Milk was harassed by police and lol officials.

Dpe alienatg many Democrats, cludg other gay activists, wh his bombastic language and flower-child persona, he won the Castro district handily and me 10 out of 32 ndidat.

HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA

Still, Milk and the Castro’s rise to power cid wh the rise of anti-gay reactnari like Ana Bryant, and Milk unrstood both the power and the danger of his posn as facto lear of the largt gay muny Ameri.

On the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, shortly after his partner mted suici and the face of nservative backlash across the untry, Milk addrsed San Francis’s gay pri para, begng wh his tchphrase “My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to rec you” and endg wh a msage of “Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to e to if the prsur at home are too great. ”The followg November, 75 percent of California voters rejected a referendum that would have allowed schools to fire teachers for beg homosexual. On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall 2019, Milk was an gural ductee onto the Natnal LGBTQ Wall of MORE: The Gay Rights MovementAlso on This Day History January | 8.

Two openly gay ndidat November will go head-to-head a feral general electn for the first time U.

HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY

In a first, two openly gay ndidat November will go head-to-head a feral general electn. The ngrsman-elect would jo two other openly gay members of Congrs om New York: Rep. Mondaire Jon (D), the first openly gay Black person to serve Congrs, lost his bid for a send term Augt’s primary electn.

Growg up Nass County the 1960s and ’70s wasn’t easy for Zimmerman, 67, who knew he was gay at an early age. “At that time, was a very isolatg place for those of that were gay, ” he said.

JARED POLIS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED ERNOR AMERI

Once, after nfidg one of his school teachers that he thought he might be gay, Zimmerman was referred to nversn therapy — a discreded practice that aims to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty.

“I am an openly gay ndidate. ), one of the lead negotiators on the measure the Senate and the chamber’s first openly gay member, announced last week that actn on the bill would be layed until after the midterm electns, wh Senate Republins seekg stronger relig liberty protectns. The legislatn has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by s crics for s heavy rtrictns on talk of sexual orientatn and genr inty K-12 classrooms, which the measure’s proponents — cludg Santos — have equated to “groomg” and child abe.

Congrs has more openly gay members than ever before. Thirteen members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cludg Sen. Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who beme the first openly gay U.

WISNS’S TAMMY BALDW IS FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO SENATE

Forty years ago, Democrat Gerry Studds helped pave the way for this historic reprentatn by beg the first member of Congrs to e out as gay while office. But the challeng are ma substantially more plex when one is, as am I, both an elected public official and gay. Back then, “no Congrsman had survived a public revelatn of their homosexualy, ” acrdg to Jam Kirchick, thor of Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton.